|
American Sex Star
''Jenna's American Sex Star'' is an adult pay-per-view reality television series hosted by Jenna Jameson on Playboy TV that ran from 2005 until 2006. Premise In each episode, with Jameson as the host, five contestants competed in a series of sexual performances for a panel of judges. The judges first eliminated a contestant and then viewers voted for their favorite performer on Playboy.com. Winners were awarded an exclusive contract with Jameson's movie studio ClubJenna. The show also included interviews with porn actors about each contestant. Ron Jeremy did the lead-in and introduction for the first episodes. Subsequent episode lead-ins were done by ClubJenna girls, including Jesse Capelli and McKenzie Lee. Judges Season 1 judges included Christy Canyon, Ron Jeremy, and Jim Powers. Season 2 judges included Jim Powers, Jenna Lewis, and Jay Grdina (Jenna's ex-husband). KISS band member Gene Simmons made an appearance as a guest judge. Playboy TV's Andrea Lowell appears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Jameson
Jenna Marie Massoli (born April 9, 1974), known professionally as Jenna Jameson (), is an American model, former pornographic film actress, businesswoman, and television personality. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn". She started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the "Top Newcomer" award from each of the three major adult movie organizations. She has since won more than 35 adult-video awards, and has been inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame. Jameson founded the adult-entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially, a single website, this business expanded into managing similar websites of other stars and began producing sexually explicit videos in 2001. The first such movie, ''Briana Loves Jenna'' (with Briana Banks), was named at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; he, חיים ויץ, ; born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American musician. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the hard rock band he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in the early 1970s. Simmons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss. Early life Simmons was born as Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish immigrants from Hungary. His mother, Florence Klein (1925–2018) (née Flóra Kovács), was born in Jánd and survived internment in Nazi concentration camps. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons' father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz (1925–2002), was a carpenter. Simmons spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel and was raised in a practicing Jewish household. He has said that his family was "dirt poor", scraping by on ration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s American Reality Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 American Television Series Endings
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playboy Entertainment Group
PLBY Group, Inc. is an American global media and lifestyle company founded by Hugh Hefner as Playboy Enterprises, Inc. to oversee the ''Playboy'' magazine and related assets. Its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California. The company is focused on four primary business lines: Sexual Wellness, Style & Apparel, Gaming and Lifestyle, and Beauty & Grooming. Today, PLBY Group, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and distribution of content, products and high-profile events that embody both "eroticism and fine art", alongside and apparel retailing. It is in the top twenty most licensed brands globally. History Sales of ''Playboy'' magazine peaked in 1972 at over 7 million copies. By 2015, the circulation had fallen to 800,000. The company completed its shift to consumer products in 2020 with the shuttering of the magazine division, and is now known to generate more than $3 billion in consumer spending annually across 180 countries. Playboy ran forty Playboy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Harvie
Derek Kevin Harvie (born April 7, 1971) is a Canadian TV and film writer and producer. Harvie grew up in Ottawa and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film and literature. '' Us Weekly'' named him one of the "100 Most Creative People in Entertainment". Career An original creator and writer/producer of '' The Tom Green Show'' on its Canadian community channel run, Harvie continued to write and produce the show for The Comedy Network from 1996 to 1998 and MTV from 1999 through 2003. In 2001, Harvie co-wrote the 20th Century Fox and New Regency feature '' Freddy Got Fingered''. His special MTV documentary, '' The Tom Green Cancer Special'', was named by '' Time'' magazine as "one of the ten best TV programs of the year" in 2001. The show was also nominated for a Peabody Award. Harvie has worked on numerous other comedy shows, including WB's ''The Skateboard Show'', VH1's '' Hollywood Tonight'' and NBC's '' Saturday Night Live''. In 2008 Harvie was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In films, the executive producer generally contributes to the film's budget and their involvement depends on the project, with some simply securing funds and others being involved in the filmmaking process. Motion pictures In films, executive producers may finance the film, participate in the creative effort, or work on set. Their responsibilities vary from funding or attracting investors into the movie project to legal, scripting, marketing, advisory and supervising capacities. Executive producers vary in involvement, responsibility and power. Some executive producers have hands-on control over every aspect of production, some supervise the producers of a project, while others are involved in name only. The creditin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny Lane
Sunny Lane is an American pornographic actress and nude model. She is a member of the NightMoves, AVN, and XRCO Halls of Fame. Biography Lane's parents, Shelby and Mike, worked in air-freight. In her youth she was a competitive roller skater and ice skater, and later worked as an instructor teaching yoga and pilates. She trained as an ice dancer under James Millns and was in preparation for the Olympic trials when she required bunion surgery. Unable to skate due to the recovery period, she started dancing nude in order to support herself financially. She became an exotic dancer and won Déjà Vu Showgirl of the Year during her first year of dancing in 2004. Lane was invited to attend the AVN Awards ceremony in 2005 by Serenity, where, at an after-show party hosted by Sean Michaels, she encountered an agent from ''Playboy''. She started to appear in adult movies in the same year. Her career is supported and managed by her parents. Lane credits her parents' participation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Presley
Brittni De La Mora (née Ruiz), known professionally as Jenna Presley, is an American former pornographic film actress. Career While in college and working at a Santa Barbara strip club, a few producers asked Presley if she was interested in making "romance movies". Presley entered the adult film industry in September 2005 when she was 18 years old. In 2010, she was named by ''Maxim'' as one of the 12 top female stars in porn. ''Complex'' ranked her 17th on its list of "The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars (Right Now)" in 2011. After leaving the pornography industry, Presley preached at Cornerstone Church of San Diego. Personal life During her time in the adult film industry, Presley used crystal meth, heroin, and cocaine (to try to lose weight), as well as ecstasy and oxycontin. She witnessed her boyfriend being fatally-stabbed by a motorcycle gang. After three years in the industry, Presley's grandparents took her to the Rock Church in San Diego, where "she raised her hand to re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Maylene
Michelle Maylene (born January 20, 1987) is an actress, adult model, and former adult film star. Maylene has a rich heritage, blending French, Hawaiian, and Filipino roots. She gained prominence through her role as "Karen" in "Co-Ed Confidential" from 2007 to 2010 and has appeared in various adult entertainment projects, including Playboy TV and Cinemax's "Chemistry." Maylene has been nominated for several awards such as the XRCO and AVN Awards. In 2018 she was inducted into the Urban X Hall of Fame. Early life Maylene was born in Edwards, California. She is of French, Hawaiian, and Filipino descent. Career Maylene made her debut as a featured dancer in 2006. Her mother was also an exotic dancer. Between 2007 and 2010, Maylene co-starred as "Karen" in all four seasons of the Cinemax softcore-sitcom '' Co-Ed Confidential''. Maylene appeared on Jenna Jameson’s '' American Sex Star'' and was a finalist on the first season. She has appeared on Playboy TV's '' Night Calls'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Lowell
Andrea Lowell (born January 17, 1983) is an American actress and model most recognizable from her ''Playboy'' magazine nude pictorials and on air work for a variety of Playboy TV programs. Career Lowell was the co-host of ''The Playboy Morning Show'' on Playboy Radio. In 2006, Andrea appeared on VH1's ''The Surreal Life ''The Surreal Life'' is an American reality television series that records a group of celebrities as they live together in Glen Campbell's former mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks. The format of the show resembles that of '' The Real ...'' and then came back the following season as a cast member of '' The Surreal Life: Fame Games''. On November 20, 2015, at World Series of Fighting 25 Lowell was a guest ring card girl. Personal life Lowell attended the University of California, Irvine, where she pursued her Biology degree. On December 29, 2009, Lowell married longtime boyfriend James Kim, who is of Korean descent, in Las Vegas. Filmography Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Gene Simmons")
